EDUCATION, DEMOCRACY AND INEQUALITIES: THE STUDENT EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN A SCHOOL IN LAURO DE FREITAS IN THE FIRST PANDEMIC YEAR (2020)

There is an ongoing debate in Brazil about the impact of the new corona virus pandemic on Brazilian education. The institutional and political crisis that revolved around the existence of the virus in the first months of the pandemic provided a national atmosphere of conflict between the federal, state and municipal governments, which resulted in an asymmetric institutional behavior in the educational sector, across the country, regarding the dialectic between education and illness. The present research proposes to analyze the experience of implementing non-face-to-face teaching in a municipal school in Bahia in the first pandemic year (2020), from two axes: (1) the educational challenges provided by the new corona virus pandemic and (2) the specificities of the student body in the learning process in the first pandemic year. The survey results indicate that political disputes around the covid-19 pandemic had a negative impact on the educational sector, providing an institutional imbalance in the actions of the secretariat and school unit. As well as the student's educational experience, it was hampered due to the inequalities increase in the municipality and educational difficulties related to technology.